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Resource lists: Sharing good practice for staff and students

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Photo credit: Resource Lists homepage: [link] The Library now provides Resource Lists for around 2500 taught courses. The Library has grown the service by showing how Resource Lists benefits students, and by making it easier for course organisers to request Library materials for teaching by using Resource Lists.

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Digitisation at Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

The University has world-class collections of books, archives, art and museum objects, whose potential for learning and teaching can be unlocked through digitisation. Digitisation is the process of representing books, documents, recordings or objects as digital information. Dec 19, 2017

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Engaging students in learning outside the university

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

An opportunity for students to gain developmental, transferable skills by learning outside the library and the lecture theatre from the start. The creation of a porous element beyond the somewhat cloistered university environment, such that students could make experiential connections between ‘book learning’ and ‘real life’.

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Welcome to September-October’s Learning and Teaching Enhancement theme: Innovation in Science Teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

18th Century, by Science Photo Library, CC0. Consequently, The University of Edinburgh surrendered its place in the history books of science teaching on this matter (and a contingent of its students) to Liebig, and others, who were better placed to take laboratory teaching into mainstream courses. Electricity demonstration.

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Welcome to September-October's Learning and Teaching Enhancement theme: Innovation in Science Teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

18th Century, by Science Photo Library, CC0. Consequently, The University of Edinburgh surrendered its place in the history books of science teaching on this matter (and a contingent of its students) to Liebig, and others, who were better placed to take laboratory teaching into mainstream courses. Electricity demonstration.

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Learning by doing

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

During this hands-on activity, students carefully unroll replicas of picture scrolls from the late Heian period in the Main Librarys rare book section. .” This class employs a flipped learning approach, meaning students are expected to be familiar with handling picture scrolls before the session.

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